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Tue, 31 Mar 2015 16:24:01 +0000hourly1By: Christinahttp://www.catholicvote.org/want-to-express-yourself-then-ditch-the-daisy-dukes-and-dig-out-the-iron/comment-page-2/#comment-304667
ChristinaMon, 21 Apr 2014 14:36:44 +0000http://www.catholicvote.org/?p=56006#comment-304667I’m not Catholic, but stumbled on some of your articles, esp about kissing and dating, and I am falling in love with your sensibilities, I’m so excited I found your writings! Your wisdom has helped me with my struggle to enforce boundaries with men. Ugh, its hard!
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Catherine S.Mon, 13 Jan 2014 19:08:34 +0000http://www.catholicvote.org/?p=56006#comment-280432People “dressing like porn stars on casual Friday”: That is how the women at my husband’s office dress! It drives me nuts! And they are all engineers!
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ColleenFri, 06 Dec 2013 14:34:16 +0000http://www.catholicvote.org/?p=56006#comment-268902Hi Emily, great article! I’m definitely on the same bandwagon – I’d rather look pretty and feminine than trashy any day of the week. :] Have you ever read the small book “Dressing with Dignity” by Colleen Hammond? It has a lot of the history on how fashions went down the drain.
PS. I’m also a dressmaker, so if you REALLY want a dress like that…I could make you one. :]
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SarahFri, 29 Nov 2013 14:24:33 +0000http://www.catholicvote.org/?p=56006#comment-266297Wow. Just wow. Love this post, and Emily I’m a big fan of your work. I work with students and face these very issues on a daily basis. Many of the young gals these days think they are beautiful when they dress in short, tight and labelled things – and at our college, we have a dress code that doesn’t include any of those things. So we battle with them – to show them that they are beautiful women of God, created by God (as you said). And they feel judged and sullen like the teenagers they still are in some cases. But reading posts like this, I know it’s worth it. Thanks for this. I will certainly be passing this link around.
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DanaFri, 29 Nov 2013 01:22:14 +0000http://www.catholicvote.org/?p=56006#comment-265992The fashion industry (an industry not unlike piggeries here in the midwest) is based totally, unflinchingly and unabashedly on profit, money, greed and envy. Young women, no longer taught by their mothers or public schools about how garments are made, fabric types and how to spot shoddy merchandise, are easily fooled into buying vulgar, trashy looking rags that twenty years ago women wouldn’t have worn to take out the garbage. I have a deg. in fash. des. from FIT and never even looked for a job in fashion as the idea of becoming a literal slave expected to be on call 24/7 to heartless sweatshop overlords wasn’t especially appealing. The whole point of ‘minimal’ fashion is to get the most amount of garments out of the least amount of fabric and people like Gwyneth Paltrow promote the myth by exercising two hours a day so she has no hips or breasts. It’s sad isn’t it?
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AnneTue, 26 Nov 2013 16:27:01 +0000http://www.catholicvote.org/?p=56006#comment-264385One of my favorite quotes (possibly paraphrased slightly from memory) from Oscar-winning costume designer Edith Head said “Wear clothes tight enough that people know you’re a woman, but wear clothes loose enough so people know you’re a lady.”
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QuanahSun, 24 Nov 2013 15:13:40 +0000http://www.catholicvote.org/?p=56006#comment-263787Sara C,

It’s not about imposing a theology of clothing on the masses. Fashion is certainly indicative of a culture as a whole; it’s why some fashions are accepted and others are not. When fashions that are truly beautiful are discarded for those that are not that does indicate something about society and since society is made of people that means it indicates something about people. My wife and I cannot afford expensive clothing, but that doesn’t mean we have dress immodestly or shabbily. Lack of money is not an excuse for not looking presentable and respectful.

Every time the students at my school get a dress down day the girls come to school wearing yoga pants, incredibly tight stretch jeans, and leggings without shorts. This is common dress for teens and women in their early twenties.

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FashionDameFri, 22 Nov 2013 02:37:29 +0000http://www.catholicvote.org/?p=56006#comment-263182Emily, I just want to point out that fashion IS going back to feminine, proper, and polished clothing. Shows like Downton Abbey and the 100th anniversary of Titanic created a huge craze for quality clothing. Tight and sexy clothing is last decade. Vintage is the new look!
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Sara CFri, 22 Nov 2013 00:59:22 +0000http://www.catholicvote.org/?p=56006#comment-263162While I can certainly see the author’s point regarding revealing clothing, I find it troubling that she would lump people who wear revealing clothing along with people who wear shabby clothing and peg both as those who don’t recognize the innate dignity of humans. it’s well and good to wear fashionable and beautiful clothing when that is something you can afford, but there are plenty of people in this country who are more concerned with filling their children’s bellies, or feeding the bellies of the poor, than filling their own closets. What it seems the author has done is taken her own particular taste in clothing and elevated it to a theology that we all must follow in order to be accurately reflecting our relationship with God and with our society. I do not see this example in the Bible. In fact, I see many in the Bible following Christ and wearing rather shabby clothing while doing it. Think of John the Baptist. Think of the disciples themselves, who eschewed all their earthly possessions and followed Christ around for three years. Certainly we shouldn’t believe they had gracefully tailored clothing. The bottom line is that true religion is caring for the widow and the orphan, not wearing nice clothing.
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